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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 4 of 9]

Chapter 194: FOOTNOTES:
By William Shakespeare
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This volume gathers a sequence of history plays that dramatize struggles over kingship, succession, and national identity in late medieval England. Rulers confront rebellions, papal and foreign pressure, and challenges to legitimacy, while a young prince evolves from license to wartime command. Scenes range from courtly intrigue and parliamentary deposition to battlefield councils and siege drama, intermixing solemn meditation on power and right with earthy comic relief provided by a boisterous companion. Recurring themes include the burdens of rule, honor versus expediency, the manipulation of law and ceremony, and the formation of leadership through conflict.

Fal. If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle. A man
 can no more separate age and covetousness than a' can[3423]215
 part young limbs and lechery: but the gout galls the one,
 and the pox pinches the other; and so both the degrees[3424]
 prevent my curses. Boy!
Page. Sir?
Fal. What money is in my purse?220
Page. Seven groats and two pence.
Fal. I can get no remedy against this consumption of
 the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but
 the disease is incurable. Go bear this letter to my Lord of
 Lancaster; this to the prince; this to the Earl of225
 Westmoreland; and this to old Mistress Ursula, whom I have
 weekly sworn to marry since I perceived the first white
 hair on my chin. About it: you know where to find me.[3425]
 [Exit Page.] A pox of this gout! or, a gout of this pox![3426]
 for the one or the other plays the rogue with my great toe.[3427]230
 'Tis no matter if I do halt; I have the wars for my colour,[3428]
 and my pension shall seem the more reasonable. A good
 wit will make use of any thing: I will turn diseases to
 commodity. [Exit.[3429]

Scene III. York. The Archbishop's Palace.

Enter the Archbishop, the Lords Hastings, Mowbray, and Bardolph.[3430]

Arch. Thus have you heard our cause and known our means;[3431]
 And, my most noble friends, I pray you all,[3432]
 Speak plainly your opinions of our hopes:
 And first, lord marshal, what say you to it?
Mowb. I well allow the occasion of our arms;[3433]5
 But gladly would be better satisfied
 How in our means we should advance ourselves
 To look with forehead bold and big enough
 Upon the power and puissance of the king.
Hast. Our present musters grow upon the file10
 To five and twenty thousand men of choice;
 And our supplies live largely in the hope[3434]
 Of great Northumberland, whose bosom burns
 With an incensed fire of injuries.
L. Bard. The question then. Lord Hastings, standeth thus;15
 Whether our present five and twenty thousand
 May hold up head without Northumberland?
Hast. With him, we may.
L. Bard. Yea, marry, there's the point:[3435]
 But if without him we be thought too feeble,
 My judgement is, we should not step too far20
 Till we had his assistance by the hand;[3436]
 For in a theme so bloody-faced as this[3436]
 Conjecture, expectation, and surmise[3436]
 Of aids incertain should not be admitted.[3436][3437]
Arch. 'Tis very true, Lord Bardolph; for indeed25
 It was young Hotspur's case at Shrewsbury.
L. Bard. It was, my lord; who lined himself with hope,
 Eating the air on promise of supply,[3438]
 Flattering himself in project of a power[3439]
 Much smaller than the smallest of his thoughts:30
 And so, with great imagination
 Proper to madmen, led his powers to death
 And winking leap'd into destruction.
Hast. But, by your leave, it never yet did hurt
 To lay down likelihoods and forms of hope.35
L. Bard. Yes, if this present quality of war,[3440][3441]
 Indeed the instant action: a cause on foot,[3440][3441]
 Lives so in hope, as in an early spring[3440][3441]
 We see the appearing buds; which to prove fruit,[3440]
 Hope gives not so much warrant as despair[3440]40
 That frosts will bite them. When we mean to build,[3440]
 We first survey the plot, then draw the model;[3440]
 And when we see the figure of the house,[3440]
 Then must we rate the cost of the erection;[3440]
 Which if we find outweighs ability,[3440]45
 What do we then but draw anew the model;[3440]
 In fewer offices, or at least desist[3440][3442]
 To build at all? Much more, in this great work,[3440]
 Which is almost to pluck a kingdom down[3440]
 And set another up, should we survey[3440]50
 The plot of situation and the model,[3440][3443]
 Consent upon a sure foundation,[3440][3444]
 Question surveyors, know our own estate,[3440]
 How able such a work to undergo,[3440][3445]
 To weigh against his opposite; or else[3440][3446]55
 We fortify in paper and in figures,[3447]
 Using the names of men instead of men:
 Like one that draws the model of a house[3448]
 Beyond his power to build it; who, half through,[3449]
 Gives o'er and leaves his part-created cost[3450]60
 A naked subject to the weeping clouds,
 And waste for churlish winter's tyranny.
Hast. Grant that our hopes, yet likely of fair birth,
 Should be still-born, and that we now possess'd[3451]
 The utmost man of expectation,65
 I think we are a body strong enough,[3452]
 Even as we are, to equal with the king.
L. Bard. What, is the king but five and twenty thousand?
Hast. To us no more; nay, not so much, Lord Bardolph.
 For his divisions, as the times do brawl,70
 Are in three heads: one power against the French,[3453]
 And one against Glendower; perforce a third
 Must take up us: so is the unfirm king
 In three divided; and his coffers sound
 With hollow poverty and emptiness.75
Arch. That he should draw his several strengths together
 And come against us in full puissance,
 Need not be dreaded.[3454]
Hast. If he should do so,[3455]
 He leaves his back unarm'd, the French and Welsh[3455][3456]
 Baying him at the heels: never fear that.[3455][3456]80
L. Bard. Who is it like should lead his forces hither?
Hast. The Duke of Lancaster and Westmoreland;
 Against the Welsh, himself and Harry Monmouth:
 But who is substituted 'gainst the French,[3457]
 I have no certain notice.
Arch. Let us[3458]85
 And publish the occasion of our arms.[3458]
 The commonwealth is sick of their own choice;[3458][3459]
 Their over-greedy love hath surfeited:[3458][3459]
 An habitation giddy and unsure[3458]
 Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.[3458]90
 O thou fond many, with what loud applause[3458][3460]
 Didst thou beat heaven with blessing Bolingbroke,[3458]
 Before he was what thou wouldst have him be![3458]
 And being now trimm'd in thine own desires,[3458][3461]
 Thou, beastly feeder, art so full of him,[3458]95
 That thou provokest thyself to cast him up.[3458]
 So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge[3458]
 Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard;[3458]
 And now thou wouldst eat thy dead vomit up,[3458]
 And howl'st to find it. What trust is in these times?[3458]100
 They that, when Richard lived, would have him die,[3458][3462]
 Are now become enamour'd on his grave:[3458][3462]
 Thou, that threw'st dust upon his goodly head[3458]
 When through proud London he came sighing on[3458]
 After the admired heels of Bolingbroke,[3458]105
 Criest now 'O earth, yield us that king again,[3458]
 And take thou this!' O thoughts of men accursed![3458]
 Past and to come seems best; things present, worst.[3458][3463]
Mowb. Shall we go draw our numbers, and set on?[3464]
Hast. We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.110

[Exeunt.[3465]

FOOTNOTES:

[3267] Scene I.] Pope. Scena Secunda. Ff. See note (II).

Enter....] Enter the Lord Bardolfe at one doore. Q. Enter Lord Bardolfe, and the Porter. Ff (Bardolf, F4). Enter Lord Bardolph; the Porter at the door. Theobald. The Porter above the Gate. Enter Lord Bardolph. Singer (Collier MS.).

[3268] here] om. F2 F3 F4.

[3269] Enter N.] Ff. Enter the Earle Northumberland. Q.

Here comes] Here's Pope.

[Exit Porter.] Dyce.

[3270] an God] and God Q. and heaven Ff. if heav'n Pope. an heaven Capell.

[3271] my lord,] Q. (my L.) Ff.

[3272] whom] Ff. who Q.

[3273] Enter Travers.] Ff. Enter Travers. Q in margin, opposite lines 25, 26. Pope after line 32.

[3274] retail] retain Johnson (1770).

[3275] Scene II. Pope.

comes with] Q. comes from Ff. come with Pope.

[3276] Sir] om. F2 F3 F4.

[3277] hard] head F1.

[3278] bad] Q. ill Ff.

[3279] forward] Q F3 F4. forwards F1 F2.

armed] Q. able Ff. agile Pope.

[3280] Of Hotspur ... luck?] Rebellion had ill luck? Pope.

[3281] what] om. Pope.

[3282] never] ne'er Pope.

[3283] that gentleman] Q. the gentleman Ff.

[3284] hilding] Q. hielding Ff.

[3285] Spoke] Q. Speake F1. Spake F2 F3 F4.

at a venture] at a venter Q. at adventure Ff.

[3286] Scene III. Pope.

[3287] strond] Maine Dering MS.

whereon] Q. when Ff.

[3288] so woe-begone,] Ucalegon Bentley conj.

[3289] Priam] Priams F2.

[3290] my] Q F3 F4. mine F1 F2.

[3291] brother, yet] Ff. brother yet Q.

[3292] dead.] Ff. dead? Q.

[3293] others'] other Rowe (ed. 2).

[3294] chanced] Q. chanc'd Ff.

speak, Morton] Morton, speak Pope, speak, speak S. Walker conj.

[3295] an] Q. thy Ff.

[3296] North. Yet, for ... friend.] Bard. Yet, for ... dead. North. I see ... alive. Morton. Yet the first ... friend. Johnson conj.

[3297] say so] Ff. om. Q. indeed Seymour conj.

[3298] tolling] Q. knelling Ff.

[3299] I am] I'm Pope.

[3300] God] Q. heaven Ff.

[3301] Harry] Q. Henrie F1. Henry F2 F3 F4.

[3302] metal] F4. mettal Q. mettle F1 F2 F3.

[3303] abated] rebated Warburton.

[3304] fled] fly S. Walker conj.

[3305] that] the Hanmer.

[3306] Too] Ff. So Q.

[3307] these] Q. this Ff.

[3308] Having ... have] That would, had I been well, have Pope.

[3309] have] hath F3 F4.

[3310] buckle] knuckle Bailey conj.

[3311] Weaken'd with grief] Weaken'd with age or Weaken'd with pain Malone conj.

[3312] [throwing it from him. Capell.

[3313] flesh'd] flush'd Capell.

[3314] ragged'st] rugged'st Theobald.

[3315] this world] Q. the world Ff.

[3316] Tra. This ... my lord.] Capell. Umfr. This ... my lord. Q. Omitted in Ff. Pope gives this and the next line to Bardolph.

[3317] Lean] Leane Q.

your] you Q.

[3318] You cast ... to be? Omitted in Q.

[3319] brought] F2 F3 F4. bring F1.

[3320] 'twas] twas Q. was Ff.

[3321] ventured, ... proposed] Capell. venturd ... proposde, Q. ventur'd ... propos'd, Ff.

[3322] forth,] forth; Ff. forth Q.

[3323] do] Ff. dare Q.

truth,] truth: Ff. truth. Q.

[3324] The gentle ... follow him. Omitted in Q.

[3325] corpse] corpes F1 F2. corps F3 F4. corpse' Dyce.

[3326] bishop] archbishop Collier (Collier MS.).

[3327] enlarge] enlard Warburton conj.

[3328] and never] Q. nor never Ff.

[3329] Scene II.] Steevens. Scena Tertia. Ff. Scene IV. Pope. Enter Falstaff, with....] Enter Sir John alone, with.... Q. Enter Falstaffe and Page. Ff.

[3330] healthy] healing Rowe.

[3331] owed] own'd F4.

[3332] for] cure for Capell.

[3333] foolish-compounded clay, man] foolish-compounded-clay, man Pope. foolish compounded clay-man Q Ff.

[3334] invent] vent Reed (1803).

tends] Ff. intends Q.

[3335] overwhelmed] ouerwhelmd Q. o'rewhelm'd Ff.

[3336] manned] maim'd F3 F4.

[3337] agate] Johnson. agot Q Ff. aglet Hanmer.

inset] in-set Q. selte Ff. e'en set Anon. conj.

[3338] to your master, for a jewel,] for a jewel to your master Nicholson conj.

jewel,—] iewell, Q. Iewell. Ff.

juvenal] juvenil Rowe (ed. 2).

[3339] fledged] fledg'd Ff. fledge Q.

[3340] on] off Q of Collier conj.

[3341] God] Q. Heaven Ff.

[3342] he will] it will Pope.

'tis] tis Q. it is Ff.

[3343] at] Q F1. as F2 F3 F4.

[3344] he'll] heele Q. he will Ff.

[3345] he's] hees Q. he is Ff.

[3346] Master Dombledon] M. Dombledon Ff. master Dommelton Q. Master Double-done Steevens conj. Master Double-down Mason conj. Master Dumbleton Malone (Steevens conj.)

[3347] my short] short F2.

my slops] Q. slops Ff.

[3348] band] Q. bond Ff.

[3349] pray God] Q. may Ff.

[3350] Achitophel] Architophel F2.

rascally] rascall: Q.

[3351] smooth-pates] Ff. smoothy-pates Q.

[3352] through] thorough Pope.

[3353] lief] liue Q.

[3354] a'] a Q. he Ff.

[3355] a true] Q. true Ff.

[3356] Where's Bardolph] Put by Q in line 44, after through it.

[3357] into] Ff. in Q.

[3358] an] Malone. and Q. if Ff.

but] Q. om. Ff.

[3359] Enter the Lord....] Enter Chiefe Justice, and Servant. Ff. Enter Lord chiefe Justice. Q. Enter ... servants. Rowe (ed. 2). Enter ... his Gentleman following. Capell.

[3360] Scene V. Pope.

[3361] [going. Capell.

[3362] an't] Hanmer. and't Q Ff.

[3363] begging] Q. beg Ff.

Is] Are Rowe.

[3364] king] Q F4. K. F1 F2 F3.

[3365] need] Q. want Ff.

[3366] sir, ... man?] sir, ... man, Q. sir?... man? Ff.

[3367] I had] had F2.

[3368] lie] do lie Capell.

[3369] hunt counter:] hunt conter, Q. Hunt-counter, Ff.

[3370] God] Q. om. Ff. I Capell.

[3371] of day] Q. of the day Ff.

[3372] hath] Ff. have Q.

age] Ff. an ague Q. antique Anon. conj.

[3373] time] Ff. time in you Q.

[3374] for you] Q F2 F3. you F1. for your F4.

[3375] An't] Capell. Andt Q. If it Ff.

[3376] discomfort] discomfit Capell conj.

[3377] God] Q. heaven Ff.

pray you] Q. pray Ff.

[3378] an't please your lordship] Pope. and't please your lordship Q. Omitted in Ff.

kind of] Q. om. Ff.

in] Q. of Ff.

[3379] its] F3 F4. it Q F1 F2.

[3380] his effects] its effects F4. it Pope.

[3381] Fal.] Ff. Old. Q. See note (III).

an't Ff. and't Q.

[3382] attention] inattention Capell.

do become] Q. be Ff.

[3383] come speak] Q F1. speak F2 F3 F4.

[3384] learned counsel] counsel learned Pope.

[3385] him] Ff. himselfe Q.

[3386] are] Q. is Ff.

[3387] is great] Q. great Ff.

[3388] slenderer] Ff. slender Q.

[3389] young] youthful Capell.

[3390] My lord?] Ff. My lord. Q. My lord— Singer.

[3391] to smell] Ff. smell Q.

[3392] if] but if Pope.

[3393] ill] Q. evill Ff.

[3394] ill] om. Warburton.

[3395] without weighing] without, weighing F1 F2.

[3396] go: I ... tell.] Ff. go. I ... tell, Q.

[3397] costermonger times] Capell. costar-mongers times Q. Costormongers F1 F2. costermongers dayes F3 F4 (days F4).

[3398] bear-herd] F4. berod Q. beare-heard F1 F2. bear-heard F3.

[3399] hath his] Ff. his Q.

[3400] this] Ff. his Q.

them, are] the one Q.

[3401] do] om. Ff.

[3402] your chin double] Q. Omitted in Ff.

[3403] yet] Q. om. Ff.

[3404] about ... afternoon] Q. Omitted in Ff. about three of the afternoon Collier MS.

[3405] halloing] hallowing Q F1 F2. hollowing F3 F4.

[3406] further] Q F3 F4. farther F1 F2.

[3407] of the] Q. of th' F1 F2. oth' F3. o'th' F4.

[3408] ear] yeere Q.

[3409] God] Q. Heaven Ff.

[3410] and Prince Harry] Omitted in Q.

[3411] Yea] Q. Yes Ff.

[3412] by the Lord, I] Q. if I F1 F2 F3. I F4.

[3413] and] an S. Walker conj.

[3414] and] & Q. if Ff. an Capell.

[3415] a bottle,] a bottle. Q. my bottle, Ff.

I would] Q. would Ff.

[3416] ever] for ever Collier MS.

[3417] but it was ... motion] Omitted in Ff.

[3418] alway yet] always Pope, always yet Capell.

[3419] ye] you Hanmer.

[3420] a rust] rust Reed (Mason conj.). the rust Anon. conj.

[3421] God] Q. heaven Ff.

[3422] Exeunt....] Exeunt ... Gentleman. Capell. Exit. Ff. om. Q.

[3423] a'] a Q. he Ff.

[3424] degrees] Q Ff. diseases Dyce (Collier MS.).

[3425] on] Ff. of Q.

[3426] [Exit Page.] Capell. om. Q Ff.

[3427] the other] Q. th' other Ff.

[3428] 'Tis Tis Q. It is Ff.

[3429] [Exit.] Capell. Exeunt. Ff. om. Q.

[3430] Scene III.] Steevens. Scena Quarta Ff. Scene VI. Pope. om. Q.

York.] Pope.

The Archbishop's palace.] Theobald.

Enter....] Enter th' Archbishop, Thomas Mowbray (Earle Marshall) the Lord Hastings, Fauconbridge, and Bardolfe. Q. Enter Archbishop, Hastings, Mowbray, and Lord Bardolfe. Ff.

[3431] Arch.] Bishop. Q (afterwards Bish.).]

cause] Q. causes Ff.

known] knowne Q kno F1. know F2 F3 F4.

[3432] And] Now Pope.

[3433] Mowb.] Marsh. Q. Mow. F1 F3 F4. Mor. F2.

[3434] live] lie S. Walker conj.

[3435] Yea] Q. I Ff.

[3436] Till ... admitted] Omitted in Q.

[3437] incertain] F1 F2. uncertain F3 F4.

[3438] on] Ff. and Q.

[3439] in] Q. with Ff.

[3440] Yes, if ... or else] Omitted in Q.

[3441] Yes ... Lives] Ff. See note (IV).

[3442] or at least] at least Pope. or else Hanmer. or, at last Capell.

[3443] of situation] the situation Collier (Collier MS.). and] draw or and draw Keightley conj.

[3444] Consent] Consult Collier MS.

[3445] After this line Mr Collier, following the MS. corrector, inserts A careful leader sums what force he brings.

[3446] To weigh] How weigh Capell. And weigh Staunton conj.

his] this Singer conj.

[3447] We....] Bard. We.... Q.

in paper] on paper Collier MS.

[3448] one] on Q.

a house] Ff. an house Q.

[3449] through] thorough Q.

[3450] cost] house Keightley conj.

[3451] possess'd] possess Collier MS.

[3452] a body] Ff. so, body Q.

[3453] Are] Ff. And Q.

[3454] be] Ff. to be Q.

[3455] If he ... that.] Printed as prose in Q.

[3456] He leaves ... Baying] Ff. French and Welch he leaves his back vnarmde, they baying Q. To French and Welsh he leaves his back unarmed, They baying Capell.

[3457] 'gainst] Ff. against Q.

[3458] Arch. Let us ... worst.] Omitted in Q.

[3459] their ... Their] her ... Her Capell.

[3460] many] meyny (from mesnie) Douce conj.

[3461] being now] now being Pope.

trimm'd] F1. trimm'd up F2 F3 F4.

[3462] They ... Are] Thou Art Keightley conj.

[3463] Past ... worst] Printed in italics in Ff.

seems] seem Pope.

[3464] Mowb.] Bish. Q.

[3465] [Exeunt.] ex. Q.